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FAMILY TETRAGNATHIDAE
- This page contains pictures and information about Silver Orb Spiders that
we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 10mm
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- Silver Orb Spiders are also known as Silver Camel Spiders. Silver Orb spiders have
the bright silver oval-shaped abdomens with black patterns.
Their long legs and head are yellowish green to dark green in colour. They are common in
Brisbane bushes
and backyards, especially in moisture areas.
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- Males look similar but smaller size with longer legs.
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- The spiders also are known as Horizontal Orb Spider.
They build inclined or horizontal orb webs, although vertical webs can
sometimes be seen.
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- They build typical orb webs. Their webs
are simple and complete, with large holes in the centre.
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- Because of their long
legs, they can build the web with wide space between radii, i.e., less radii
are needed. Also the silks used are thin and the webs look weak. They wait for their prey in the middle
of the web both day and night.
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- Silver Orb Spiders like
to build webs near fresh water, such as creek or pond. Because of their
web is horizontal, it easily traps the insects fly up after drinking water.
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- Reference:
- 1. Wildlife
of Greater Brisbane - Queensland Museum 1995, p34.
- 2. Leucauge
species - The
Find-a-spider Guide for Australian Spiders, University of Southern
Queensland, 2007.
- 3. A Guide to Australian Spiders - Densey Clyne, Melbourne, Nelson
1969, p67.
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